Friday, December 09, 2016

In which the pond has a Canadian moment before reverting to the reptiles ...


Lately the pond has taken to watching CBC's news The National, wherein an avuncular, portly, old school gentleman - no offence Peter, the pond loves ya - reads the news to Canadians ...

The pond can't help it, it's the logarithms which makes it do it ... and besides, Canada is something of a beguiling mystery to the pond.

You can imagine the pond's surprise to see climate science being taken, and reported, seriously ... and if you don't have logarithms telling you what to watch, you can just head off  to When climate change hits home ... (the main news page is here - and for the  moment the show of the day leads with a climate change story - and note that the CBC isn't the ABC, and gasp, does advertising).

Of course the Canadians are just a hop, skip and a jump from the deep north ... indeed, some even suggest that the deep north is an actual part of Canada and so they might have a clue what's happening in their country, as opposed to the acute observations of the Bolter from his eerie in Melbourne ...

There were observations, experts, theories and animations ... all as the lead story ...


The pond reeled away in shock.

It's so much more comforting when climate science is treated as yet another excuse to bash the Labor party ....


Yes, he should have headed south to do some walri-hunting, as all the best environment ministers do, rather than shamelessly going headline-hunting ...

Fancy attempting to put a discussion of climate science anywhere near the front page. How embarrassing, how shocking ... the pond can't think of a deeper term of abuse than "how Canadian".

Let it stay low ball, or low key, or at least onion-munching Bjorn Lomborgian ...


Sorry Canadians, good luck with that chatter this week about pricing carbon. 

Down under it's Barners, dinkum Oz coal, coal, coal for the world, and sssh, please don't talk about climate science or suggest policy might be sensibly discussed in the public arena ...

If that happens, Cory and the onion muncher will chuck a tanty and everyone will duck for cover, and Malware will deliver a policy up there with his Queen Victoria-approved broadband ...

All this refusal to treat climate science as actual science makes for an interesting ironic coda in reptile la la land ...


The pond just had to throw in that splash about the latte-belt world of Fairfax ... 

This from reptiles who daily work in Surry Hills, hipster heaven, and home to - not just excellent coffee - but some great discount sushi at the four o'clock discount rush ... no, forget it, it's the pond's secret, find your own sushi ...

Now the pond knows why the reptiles are so upset by Fairfax and the ABC. Who wouldn't be bitter?


The rest of that month-old tale of some mayhem, advertising revenue woe and job losses at the AFR here, and at the New Daily as News Corp moves into loss, flags more job cuts ...

Old it might be, but it's not going away.

Why else would the skin-flints at the Terror be splashing out a mighty eighty bucks to punters to help them work out what to do?


Eighty bucks to fix the mayhem? Good luck with that.

It might also help explain why the lizard editorialist sounded tired and defeated this day, and a little out of breath and words.

So many campaigns against science, and suddenly, there was talk of science being devalued?

What to do? What to say?

Well at least keep it short ...


The irony of "stop politicking, start teaching" coming from a rag that has routinely demonised science and scientists in the name of political spruiking was too rich for the pond ...

No wonder  the reptiles kept it short.

No wonder the spectre of 2017 looms like a nightmare. Surrounded by coffee and sushi, and yet the failing business plan makes them luxury items only Fairfaxians and cardigan wearers might be able afford ...

Now this all might sound cruel on the pond's part. Gloat at the falling and the fallen?

Well if you aren't a part of the solution, if you want to remain a part of the problem, get out of the way ...

Luckily the main purpose of noting the reptile despair was to introduce a relevant Pope, with more papal infallibility available at a click here ...



Yes, Pope manages to join diverse strands together, including that odious fraud, Stephen "let's have a giant internet filter for everyone" Conroy ...

And politicians wonder why politicians are universally despised as fraudulent hustlers on the make ...


Oh yes, the pond has been there before, it'll make a responsible wager on that ...




3 comments:

  1. News Corpse could save the major part of that 40 million simply by closing the Australian (I believe the Terror and the Hun are still mildly profitable).
    It would be entertaining to see where the reptiles ended up. Would Miranda Devine be ousted from the Terror by Dame Slap? Would the Caterist usurp Tom Switzer at their ABC? The possibilities are endless.

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    1. I admit to being curious as to how long Terry McCrann will last, though perhaps by this time he's invictus because he knows all the walls where skeletons have been bricked in.

      I still vaguely remember when McCrann was writing for the Melbourne Age and had a huge dummy-spit over Kenneth Davidson and then marched off (or was maybe pushed, I really don't know) to the Hairoiled-Scum to show off his premature senility. Strewth, that would be at least 30 years ago, maybe even as much as 40. Davidson is pretty much retired these days, I think, but Terry blunders on ... and on ... and ...

      Oh, how flies time when they scent a banana ... or summat.

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  2. I'm not sure if it would really matter whether poor Josh was in the Antarctic or the Arctic.
    Really DP,you could not make this post reality shit up and I never really thought that it could actually make one laugh. Have a great weekend DP.
    For Josh:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqRwfkHnBMk

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